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The biggest thrill in the world is to own a champion!

NEW 1935 MIRACLE RIDE

NOTES OF THE DAY

FLYING FOR ALL

Herr Kronfeld's fight in an engined glider from London to Paris at a cost of barely ds. for petrol and oil brings flying for the million appreciably nearer. Low- powered aircraft are clearly de- stined to do for the air what the light car has done for the roads.

STUDEBAKER This flight between two capitals.

Get a Studebaker and you get a champion!

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has shown something of their potentialities. It is now possible to own a machine which costs no more than an inexpensive motor- car; and to fly it for 9o. na kour. Besides being cheap and easy to manipulate, the engined glider has a low landing speed, which is a Bafety factor of no small Import- ance to the Intending pilot. The day is coming when most people will fly as a natural mode of trans- port. Cheaper flight will be of great service in encouraging air- mindedness. The light aeroplane

is being rapidly developed abroad.

notably in France, where the "y- ing flea" is extremely popular, and Germany, America and to some extent Britain, are studying this field of progress.

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TAKING THE SKY TRAILS

persons

JUNE 18, 1935.

SIX PENNY FLIGHT TO PARIS

By ROBERT KRONFELD

Robert Kronfeld in Austrian gliding expert, who a few days ago made a remarkable flight from Croydon to Paris in hin tiny single-acater gliding 'plane, 5-it.p. which' in provided with motorcycle engine, andia capable of a speed of as m.p.k. The flight cast him less than 68. for fuel. Herr Kronfeld, it will be remembered, in 1931 won the £1,000 prize offered by The Daily Mail for the first gliding flight across the Chan- net and back. In this article he discusses the developments to be expected in aviation from the new form of flight.

MY object in Paris night war Y object in undertaking the

had a contrary wind I should have

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES

By Juliet Lowell

LITTLE RULER OF LOVE

got over just the same. With my The Honolulu Gas Company, machine I can fly extremely low, and can therefore scok an altitude |where wind velocity, does not hinder

inc.

Gen. Supt. Dear Sir:

I want to ask you for fow

My machine takes off In 80 yards, miniis of your time because I am just like the majority of 'planes, and old time Gas man. but, instead of having to continue. I don't Smoke chew Drink nor running in a straight line after Gamble, and I feel that you would rising. I can turn within the limits never be sorry for giving me this of my take-off field and gradually chance of my life because I am. rise' in a spiral, practically like an ready to be married to a Little autogiro,

Lady who Holds my Heart. She Has told me that as soon as I can get a Job in your clty She will become my wife.

A field of 200 yards in length is quite aufcient for me to take to hour, and therefore I need not fear the air. I can land at 18 miles per

a crash.

Should I have to land on rough ground I simply sit down.

to show that flying to-day is well within the means of the average person-just as cheap and every bit

Now imagine what a wonderful as safe as the small touring ear.

sporting achievement it would be Yesterday's achievement was no if we could have hundreds of glid- fantastic stunt. I

simplying clubs in England, and tens of

Dr. Harlow Shapley recently told showing how easy it is for anyone thousands of young men and wo- an Open Night" alience at Har-to fly. My wife has been among men gliders taking off from pl- vard Observatory that in the last my many pupils, and she has learn-most any flat field or piece of com- thirteen years 30,000 to 40,000

have visited the grented to fly a glider in a few lessons, then ground; able to inke an even- astronomical research station in and was able to take over full coming gliding fight for 30 ar 40 miles Cambridge, which periodically mand of a glider with a small motor out into the country and back, or opens its doors to the public in like the one I used yesterday after go to Scotland for a week-end from

Surrey. the interest of widening popular only one week of tuition.

Pro-

knowledge of the cosmos. gress in photography and the spectroscopic Investigation of stellar light have greatly streng

The glider I brought over with

When I landed in Paris my E CASTRO-Emilia thened the ties of interest which nie is to be delivered to a French Petrol tank was barely half empty. Marla (Millie) at her residence, have been built up in recent years film, who intend to build it in could have continued my journey. No. 16, ilumphreys Buildings, between astronomers and laymen. series for the French public. That for about another 230 miles, which after a long and painful illness. The routine work of the profes-shows the interest in these gliders would have taken me to Funeral will pass the Monument

at 5.30 p.m. this afternoon. No sional astronomer is highly techni-which is being taken over here in Geneva.

cal and palna-taking. The vist France.. flowers by request,

bulk of it is accomplished not by

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1935.

THE PHILIPPINES PROBLEM

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And to think that because

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visual observation of the heavens I must say that in England also thought I needed all that petral 1 but by extremely refined photo-I am continually being asked about almost overloaded myself and for graphic methods. Expert Inter-gliders; and I do really think that the first time took a large parachute pretation of the product of teles-

I trust that the Little Ruler of Love will Speak to you for one year any way.

remain

Hoping to hear, from you soon I

Yours lovingly.

Kenneth B

I trust that the Little Ruler

of Love will Speak to you.

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HOW PHILOSOPHICAL

Young's Laundry,

Honolulu, Hawaii, Gentlemen:

In answer to your letter asking the if I'm worried about me $10.00 I owe you, let me reply that I'm not. There's no use our both worrying about it.

Yours truly,

cope and camera is essential, and it would be of immense use to the with me!

Both the British and the French the advances achieved in equip British public, not only for sporting ment are immensely valuable in purposes but also for the really Im-Air Ministries, it should be pointed new popularizing the revelations of the portant objective of making as out, are eager to help this "sky patrol." Four motor-driven many young people as possible air movement in cheap flying, and it telescopic cameras record the hap-minded, if the science of gliding is thanks to both of them that I peninge above Harvard's new Oak Ridge station in Massachusetts were to become more widely known, was able to obtain the necessary throughout every clear night of

For young men and young girls I permits without difficulty. A distinct step forward in the the year, and mechanized observa cannot think of any more useful There are heaps of people who time cutrancing want to fly but who cannot do so realisation of Philippines inde- tion of the sky is continuous at

many other points throughout the and at the same

a because of the cost. They must pendence is marked by the an-world. Astronomy to-day leaves pastime than learning to psc

have a cheap machine on which they nouncement of Mr. Frank no stone unturned to enrich ita glider.

knowledge of the cosmic creation. Murphy, the Governor General, And the observations of laymen

A start may be made with a scan rely..

In trying to create thie cheap that September 17 has been fixed are encouraged through organized simple glider, and then the begin- as the date on which the Com-methods of reporting the flights of ner may go on to a glider with a plane small wing loading has been monwealth elections will be held, meteors and the study of variable small motor-a runabout 'plane, as made à feature, as experience has stars. Real contributions to natur- it might be called, such as the one proved that machines with a light The plebiscite recently held | al science have resulted from 48 used in my Paris fight.

weight per square foot are showed a tremendous majority tronomy's refusal to "high hut"

the man in the street. The gain in Remember that for that light Itremely safe. in favour of the new Constitu- culture which has resulted from used under four gallons of petrol, With the machine with which I to-day, because his bathing suit tion; it now remains for Filipino this entente cordiale between and some Gd. worth of oil! The crossed over yesterday- B.A.C. was washed away in the surf. electors to vote for the first time specialist and layman is worth journey thus cost me barely ba. 6d. Drone-all kinds of risky, things for their own President, who will noting, and the perspective realised-far cheaper than if I had packed can be done which could not be at-

from contact with supergalactie the machine up and delivered-it

tempted with an ordinary plane:] nominally control the destinies interests is one of unimagined | freight,

There is no danger of stalling.

of the islands until independence splendour. The modern observatory becomes absolute

ten years

has made it possible in a striking Bense for the layman to put

Not long ago I had to deliver

1

Max D

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A COMPLETE WASHOUT cx- Dear Mrs. Halsey:

Your husband cannot come home

Merry) H

P.S. Poor Halsey was inade the suit.

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A flight of 800 to 1,000 miles

a bigger

hence. Although there is gen-Emerson's advice into play and to just such a glider in France, and would be possible with this same "MAN OF WAR" AWAITS YOU eral agreement that the tran-hitch "his wagon to a star." sition period may be one of some difficulty, optimism is felt as to

FABRIC UNIVERSAL JOINTS

The car will run for thousands of miles before the need arises for renewing the fabric in the univer sal joints. In course of time wear becomes noticeable and it is then that a repair should be effected to what is a vital part of the trans- mission system.

Many owner-drivers are keen to do all they can themselves, but it is not advisable for them to tackle piece of this job. Fitting a leather or ordinary fabric may ap pear to be all that is needed, but this is not so in practice.

the future of the islands. For TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT the next ten years, the United States will still remain respon- sible for protection of the Philip- pines. Congress recently passed a law authorising appointment of a military mission to the islands, and America will retain the right to intervène in Philip pines affairs until the decade expires. The situation at the moment, and, to some extent the future also, is somewhat in fluenced by the fears felt in some quarters that Japan may cast

It is essential that specially pre- covetous eyes on the territory,

pared fabric be used. Special and it is thus thought that an

discs are made for the purpose, untoward combination of circum-these being formed of a number stances might lend the United of layers of patent fabric arranged States into an extremely difficult with the threads at angles. A direct pull is provided between each position, even after the task of pair of bolt holes. Even these getting out of the islands had special discs require careful fitting. formally begun. It is of inter-180 it is better to entrust the work est, therefore, to note four sug- gestions which have just been put forward by Mr. Raymond neutralisation of the islands, Leslie Buell on behalf of the In granting the Philippines in- American Foreign Policy Asso-dependence, the United States is ciation. He suggests that it attempting to do two things: do might be better to grant inde-justice to the Filipino people, and pendence right away, so as to rid itself of a potentially embar avoid the difficult transition rassing entanglement. It may period; the signing of a recipro-therefore be that some such pro- city agreement between the gramme as has been suggested United States and the Philip might produce the results desir pines, to save the islanders from jed in a better way than is now economic collapse; the employ-proposed. Be that as it may, it

to a akilled mechanic.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. ment by the new Philippine Re-would certainly be an, Ironic

HONGKONG,

public of expert advisers nomin-stroke of fate if the Philippines ated by some such body as the question should involve the League of Nations; and an inter- United States in trouble after it! national agreement among the had formally started to with- Pacific Powers to guarantee draw.

the carriage cost me nearly £19. machine equipped with Think of the difference! came tank.. over for less than Ga.

The taxicab journey from Le Bourget aerodrome to Paris cast me mare!

I had a very good journey with good air conditions, but if I had

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I may point out that the B.A.C. 600 C.c. Drone is fitted with a Dougas engine developed out of standard moter-cycle. It is prac tically the same as that of the (Continued on Next Columns.J

"Now, don't waste, any, drinks on a customer after he has been sold."

San Diego Callfornia Club.

Dear Sirs:

I want to be a hot jockey and ride the fastest horeus. My love of animals is because I followed Father down the streets as he cleaned up after them. Ilave never riden a horse but I sure want to be a jockey.

Make me an offer and 1 will consider coming to California.

Harold Dr,

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TRY LASSOOING

Miss Celin S,

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, Dear Celin:

I'm glad you're having such a good time with the Poughkeepale boya, You write that "a certain AR young man" sent you flowers. far as I know there is none of them certain until they've married you.

Good luck.

Mother.

motorcycle, but with small modl fications for aviation purposes.

The glider which I have just de- livered coat £275. The French glider company, however, with the subsidies which are given for such craft by the French Air Ministry, hope to be able to deliver to their ellents a glider built in series at from something like $150 to £180. That is the proper spirit. There is no doubt that we are now in the Flying Ago. For the spirit and knowledge of flying to be spread everywhere among our youth we want flying gilders to be available for them as cheaply as a runabout car, and, soon, perimps, almost as cheaply as a motor-cycle..